Exchange of Views & Reading
Snipe Bulletin
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Exchange of Views & Reading
All about the Snipe Class and the Snipe Sailors. Exchange of views, opinions, comments and new proposals. The Snipe is alive and exciting. And the discussion is lively as well.
A World of Snipe
From Sailing World The Snipe dinghy provides more than great one-design sailing experience; it connects you to a global family. by Carol Cronin…
by Carol Cronin
Best Practices for Running a COVID-compliant Regatta
By Kristin Mullins, Regatta Co-Chair (and epidemiologist with University of Maryland Medical Center) & Lisa Pline, Annapolis Snipe Fleet Captain (Source: Annapolis Snipe Fleet 532) Recently…
Snipe Sailing, and Writing about it
by Carol Cronin (from her website Carol Newman Cronin) Ordinarily, a weekend regatta wouldn’t rate any special announcement… but this is no ordinary summer, so today…
by Carol Cronin
Sniping in the time of COVID
by Lisa Pline As the consequences of the COVID-19 cancellations sink in, many Snipe sailors are not only sad, but worried that our beloved class may not…
SnipeToday Video Conference: Women’s Snipe Sailing
Special guests: Paola Prada, Georgia Bruder, Sarah De Canniere, Sonia Wyffels, Katia Royer, Anette Melsom Myhre, Angela Pumariega, Lisa Pline, Charlie Bess, Kathleen Tocke (moderator)…
by SnipeToday
Snipe Sailing at University in Japan
Hello, my name is Haruna Egawa. I’m a second year college student. I am in my university’s sailing club. Today, I’d like to tell you about sailors’ actives as…
by SnipeToday
A Necessary Clarification
A rose from my garden, a rose for the Class by Pietro Fantoni My latest article provoked many comments. I must say that I focused on a formal and procedural…
Nick Grael’s Point of View
by Nicholas Grael Hello! I wanted to express my opinion regarding the changes in 2020 and 2021 major regattas. First of all, I totally agree with the postponement of…
Why I Respectfully Disagree
Joseph Mallord William Turner – Storm at Venice by Pietro Fantoni – SCIRA member Last Friday, after a Thursday night meeting, SCIRA Board of Directors has made the…
Different Times and Different Places for Different Regattas
Photo courtesy of John Payne by Kathleen Tocke These days, sailors around the world find themselves reading sailing blogs, looking at old regatta photos and videos, longing for the time…
A Tiny Giant in Sailing World
Photo courtesy of Star Sailors League by Carol Cronin (Published on the blog “Carol Newman Cronin – Where Books Meet Boats”) Back in December, I went to…
by Carol Cronin
From the Vice Commodore
Promotion in the Snipe class after the abolition of restrictions related to SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus by Zbigniew Zibi Rakocy The world and our whole life after the pandemic will no…
From the Commodore
by Luis Soubie, SCIRA Commodore Hello Snipe family, I am writing these lines to you from my home, on my 24th day of quarantine, as many of you are…
by Luis Soubié
SnipeToday Video Conference: Free Kinetics: yes or no? (Part 2)
Special guests: Augie Diaz, Pedro Pires de Lima, Kathleen Tocke, Antonio Bari, Victor Perez Campos, Luis Soubie and Ricardo Lobato…
by SnipeToday